Easy engine install

[adespin]

How about this for a simple method to get your engine back in the frame on your own !! I expect you could get it out the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6jdtfn0rqc

[70sHonda]

That looks pretty neat: engine in/out on one of these looks a nightmare to someone like me who’s never tried it. I’d be up for giving that a go though. It will be interesting to see what those more experienced on here think. Thanks for posting.

[Nurse Julie]

Nope, I don't like the look of that at all personally.

[SumpMagnet]

I got mine out by rolling iot over on it;s side and lifting hte frame off. I plan to put it back in the same way....but I will make a wooden block setup to keep it level as I had lots of fun chocking it so it stayed upright while the load was taken on bits that were strong enough to take the load

[Rob62]

It certainly worked, he almost defeated himself by starting off too far to the right but apart from that......  if you’re working alone its a valid technique....clonked his frame a couple of times but thats almost impossible to avoid with such a heavy lump.... a bit of protective wrapping will guard against that anyway. I like it.

[royhall]

Looks like a full restore. I do the engine first then drop the repainted frame over the engine with it on its side then roll it over on thick carpet. It's easy when it's just a frame and engine, but for removal from an existing bike looks like a neat trick. All looked a bit unsecure though like it could collapse at any point.

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[Mr_Sheene]

Apart from not having the dollies, the crates, the short axle stands and having given away my son's weightlifting kit when he left home, I've got everything I need except that much clear flat space. It's probably a good idea in Australia, where your nearest help is an hours drive away but I live in Brentwood and need someone to blame when it doesn't go to plan. I'll wait for my friend Bill to come over.

[paul G]

Apart from not having the dollies, the crates, the short axle stands and having given away my son's weightlifting kit when he left home, I've got everything I need except that much clear flat space. It's probably a good idea in Australia, where your nearest help is an hours drive away but I live in Brentwood and need someone to blame when it doesn't go to plan. I'll wait for my friend Bill to come over.

 

[paul G]

I put my engine on its side with wooden chocks to keep it level.
Underlay to protect the frame lower it over the engine, me and the wife did it simples

[Spitfire]

Looks like a bit of a faff to me, the engine on it's side is my preferred method.

Cheers

Dennis

[MCTID]

As an ex HSE Practitioner....I couldn't watch all of that film clip......I was just waiting for the contraption to fall over and that engine lump to land on his 'Croc covered tootsies'.....FFS.....now that would have been an interesting Video - much better that that other Classic of 'The Safety Dance' by 'Men without hats' !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDKLglEP5Y

[Andrew-S]

If he insisted on doing it that way then surely the best method would have been to have slid the frame to meet the engine rather than shifting all that engine weight on a bar on axle stands on top of upside down beer crates and dollies............

As said above, lay the thing on its side etc, etc.

I do wonder sometimes if there are more wandering around than locked up securely?
   

[Colonial-Clive (yindi)]

Better still get a couple of mates round chuck on a bar-b-q and a few tinnies and bobs ur uncle sorted!

[Spitfire]

Better still get a couple of mates round chuck on a bar-b-q and a few tinnies and bobs ur uncle sorted!

Sounds good to me

[Moorey]

What's not to like he got it in entirely on his own. No struggling or pulled back. Good for a one off, no doubt if he was doing more he would improve the method.